Civilian Conservation Corps lives through work of author Anna Burns

Sep. 30, 2012

Anna Burns, former director of library and learning resources at Louisiana State University at Alexandria, has spent four decades researching and promoting Civilian Conservation Corps, a government institution that lasted nine years almost 80 years ago. She, along with Pineville historian and author Jim Barnett, wrote ?The Work of the Civilian Conservation Corps: Pioneering Conservation in Louisiana,? about the CCC.

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Anna Burns has spent four decades researching and promoting a government institution that lasted nine years almost 80 years ago.

The Civilian Conservation Corps began in 1933 under Franklin D. Roosevelt, and amid the Great Depression. It put young men to work and put the country on a path to environmental conservation. Louisiana benefited greatly from the program, which built roads, bridges and the Kisatchie National Forest.

Burns learned of the CCC in the early 1970s while working on a research project for her second master's degree. It's been a part of her life ever since. She's now in her ...